DHAKA: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Tehran wanted friendly ties with all countries, including the United States, on the day Iran begins a new round of talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme.‘We want to have friendly relations with

DHAKA: Afghans fleeing fighting at home and seeking refuge in neighbouring Iran face increasing persecution by the Iranian government.Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday, says The Jerusalem Post.The report, ‘Unwelcome Guests’, details a growth in arbitrary arrests,

DHAKA: Indonesia will immediately cease all joint military training and operations as well as exchange of information and intelligence with Australia.Indonesia president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday in the latest salvo as a bilateral row escalated, reports The Straits

DHAKA: China’s president Xi Jinping told his Iranian counterpart to seize the opportunity to improve relations with world powers, as diplomats hope to clinch a preliminary deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme in charged talks resuming in Geneva on Wednesday.The United States, Russia,

DHAKA: At least 10 Egyptian soldiers are reported killed and several more wounded in a car bomb attack near the North Sinai city of el-Arish.Al-Masri al-Youm newspaper said a convoy of buses carrying infantry soldiers was hit by a roadside bomb as it moved through the Kharouba area.The

DHAKA: At least 21 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security officials and medics say.The bombs mostly targeted Shia districts of the city, but there was also an explosion in the predominantly Sunni area of Adhamiya.The

DHAKA: At least two security personnel were killed and four others injured Wednesday morning during a suicide attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost on Bannu-Mir Ali Road in North Waziristan tribal agency, DawnNews reported.Security officials and Pakistan Army`s Inter Service Public

DHAKA: One person has died and about 50 are feared trapped after a roof collapsed at the construction site of a South African shopping mall, officials say.Rescue teams are working in the dark and using sniffer dogs to look for survivors beneath the rubble at the site in Tongaat, north of

DHAKA: The bodies of two people who were aboard a Learjet that crashed shortly after takeoff from a Florida airport were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday night, a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard said.Petty Officer Mark Barney said the bodies of a man and woman were located

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has urged US senators to hold off from proposing more sanctions against Iran to allow time for world powers to complete a deal on Iran`s nuclear programme.A White House spokesman warned that if a deal with Tehran was not agreed, Iran would continue

DHAKA: The government has given its final go ahead to the Army for raising a corps along the China border which will include the deployment of 50,000 additional troops there at a cost of around Rs 65,000 crore.The 17 Corps, the latest and the 14th such formation of the Army, will

DHAKA: A young Frenchman who was stranded in the United States because he was deemed too heavy to fly finally took a plane to Britain on Monday, one step closer to going home.Kevin Chenais, who has a hormone imbalance and weighs 230 kilograms arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport with

DHAKA: At least 19 people have been killed in a suicide attack on an African Union base in the Somali town of Beledweyne near Ethiopia’s border, officials say.A car rammed into the gates, exploded and gunmen then stormed the building.The BBC’s Mohammed Moalimu in Somalia says it is a

DHAKA: Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle on Tuesday killed a senior Shia university director along with his driver in an apparent sectarian attack in central Pakistan, officials said.The attack comes after several deadly clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslim groups near the capital

DHAKA: Iran believes an international peace conference on Syria can be held soon but that Syrian opposition groups have yet to commit fully to the meeting.Iran deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday.The United Nations hopes the ‘Geneva 2’ conference, which

DHAKA: A jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for what it called a double suicide bombing on Tuesday outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which killed at least 25 people.‘This is a double martyrdom operation carried out by two heroes from the heroic Sunnis of

DHAKA: Egypt’s interim head of state Adly Mansour will not run for president in elections slated for next year.A Kuwaiti newspaper on Tuesday quoted him as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.Mansour was sworn in as interim president on July 4, a day after the Egyptian army ousted

DHAKA: Syria’s state TV is reporting that troops have captured a town near the Lebanon border, days after launching a wide offensive to regain the mountainous region.There is no immediate confirmation of the reported capture of Qara from rebels or pro-rebel activists, reports TDS.TV

DHAKA: US defence secretary Chuck Hagel told the Turkish foreign minister on Monday the United States would keep its two Patriot missile batteries in Turkey for up to another year, the Pentagon said.The expected decision follows backing last week by NATO allies for the extension, which

DHAKA: Two suspected suicide bombers, one driving a rigged car and the other on a motorcycle, attacked the Iranian embassy in Beirut Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 150.Lebanese security sources said, reports TDS.The sources told TDS that preliminary information